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My truck

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There aren’t many places where you can blast your music or sit in silence for hours. Out of those few places my truck is my favorite. My truck is one of my favorite things, it enables me to be able to go down to the beach and up to Reyes peak all in one day.

I practically live out of my car. I leave for school at 7:30 in the morning and I get back to my house around 7 in the evening every day. I have everything I could possibly need for school and the horse training I do after school. I could even put a bed in the back of my truck if I really wanted to, although I would have to move the horse blankets, Timothy hay pellets and shavings.

My truck gives me a cool place to sit in after a hard ride on my horse in the summer. A dry and warm place to be after walking down the hill at school in the rain. In many ways my truck is as much as a home to me as the barns and my actual house.

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Hair

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I have always had pin straight hair. I love it now but when I was younger it was a different story. Almost everyone in my family has wavy or curly hair, so I grew to wonder why I didn’t. I would spend nights trying to find ways to curl my hair but it never stuck. As I got older I started wanting to experiment with my hair more. I wanted to get layers, something that would give more dimension and life to my hair. Every time I would go to a salon I would be told that the layers wouldn’t look natural and they would be choppy if I didn’t style it. I didn’t want to have to style it. I wanted it to look like it did on all my other friends. When I got into high school my opinion on my hair changed. It got longer, and I found a way of cutting it that I liked. I got more confident in my hair and I learned to be happy with the simplicity of it. Even though it was the bane of my existence when I was younger, it has grown to be something i love.

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Senior year

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Everyone said that senior year was easy. It has been anything but easy. I have never had as much work as I have had this year. Every class has been giving endless amounts of homework. The classes that are giving the most are the all senior classes. Out of school I’m also endlessly busy, after school every day I have to work 2-3 horses. I get home every night around 7 or 8pm. Then I have all the homework that every class has been giving, it is simply too much. Then on top of it all there are college applications. I simply can not wait for the second semester, when I don’t have to worry about getting the best grades and when I won’t have college stuff to worry about. Almost all the seniors that I have talked to have similar thoughts about the work load, none of us like it. Then school also wants us to step up as student leaders, like we have time for that. After these past few weeks I’m not even looking forward to going to collage, it’s just another 4 years of school. I do hear good things about it, like how much more freedom you get and all that but I was also hearing that about high school and specifically senior year. That didn’t end up being true.

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All School Camping

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This year, for my all school camping trip me and a few other students went to Santa Cruz Island. I was not exited to go one this trip, in reality I’m never very exited to go on camping trips. I also am not a fan of boat rides because I get a little sea sick so I was not looking forward to the trip. I still went because I would rather go on that trip than any other one. We got to the island and it started raining after a few hours of being there. We hadn’t set up camp yet so we all had to do it in the rain. The second day we went on a hike and then got to hang out in the water the rest of the day, it was nice. The rest of the trip consisted of us all hanging out in the water, snorkeling, sea kayaking, and jumping off the pier. I would say that it was definitely one of my favorite trips I’ve been on with school, even though I wasn’t exited about it in the beginning.

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Writing

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I find writing to be a hard thing. It’s hard when you have to write about something that you have no interest in. It’s also hard to write about something that you are interested in because then you have so much to write about that the story tends to become a bit jumbled. In school, there is a lot of writing, and most of it tends to be about things that are not that interesting. So to me it’s pretty hard. One year of an English class, for a final, we had a prompt that allowed us to write about anything we wanted. I wrote about getting and training my wild horse. The comments that I got back were that I had a very interesting story, but I had too many grammatical errors. That is another hard part of writing, going back and checking over the formation and grammar of it all. When I finish writing something, I’m usually over it and don’t want to go back to check it over. 

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“It’s never the horse’s fault”

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Riding horses is a strange sport. You are not with a team, but you are still working with a sentient being. Except they can’t talk or communicate with us in a way that is easy to understand. In order to have a successful experience with a horse you need to learn to give up the ego of being superior to them and stoop down to their level. Working with horses, especially wild ones, is crucial to go to their level. They know nothing other than their instincts. There is a saying that every rider has heard “ it’s never the horse’s fault”. In other words, it’s always your fault. It makes things less complicated to know that you really are the problem, and that there is no one else to blame. Other times  it can be hard mentally, especially when you know that you can do better and that you are the reason that things are going sideways.

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